Fun Facts

• Around 1735, the first unofficial road in Missouri was called Three Notch Road.

• The first speed limit in Missouri was set in 1903 at 9 miles per hour.

• Around 1735, the first unofficial road in Missouri was called Three Notch Road.

• Every year, Your Safety NET drivers drive enough miles to make one roundtrip to the moon and back!!

• In 1808, The King's Highway, from St. Louis to southeast Missouri, became the first legally designated road west of the Mississippi River.

• Some of the first roads in Missouri were made with wooden planks.

• There is a street in Italy that is only 1.5 feet wide.

• The world's first gasoline station was started in 1905 in St. Louis by C. H. Laessig. The gasoline was delivered through a garden hose. Before then, gasoline was purchased by the can at grocery stores.

• In 1928, Missouri becomes the first state to earmark and protect funds for highway purposes.

• In 1937, Missouri Legislature makes it "unlawful" to drive any motor vehicle on any highway of the state without either an operator's or chauffeur's license.

• In 1956, Missouri becomes first state in the nation to take bids and begin construction on the interstate highway system.

• More than 7,700 organizations provide public transportation in the United States.

• Every dollar communities invest in public transportation generates approximately $4 in economic returns.

• By utilizing sedans instead of vans for most of our fleet, we prevent roughly 40,000 lbs of CO2 from entering the atmosphere.

• Missouri has no toll roads.